The annual summer sale on Steam has become a significant enough event that there have been murmurs of concern from the gaming community because Valve hasn't been talking about it. A post to the Steam Users' Forums by Valve's Mike Blaszczak should offer the necessary reassurance: "We are planning a sale sometime this summer. Hope that helps!" Thanks VG247 via GameTrailers.

Dev wrote on Jul 6, 2012, 18:42:Actually you are right, they SHOULD take a hint. They should run awesome summer sales RIGHT NOW THIS WEEK before valve starts theirs. That way they can take advantage of people who are wanting to jump on steam sales....But EA is just too slow to react and their idea of a good sale is something stupid like 30%.

Actually EA is doing exactly that with Amazon game downloads this past week. Some of the EA deals that were scheduled to start on Monday are even being pushed up to today by EA to get the jump on the weekend.